Out with the old bleh, in with the new nifty. It's the last and first week of the years. We've got a Fav Albums of 2008 thread running, for people that wanna go all the way back to the beginning of the year. But what're you listening to right now, and what's going to play you into 2009?

Warren, when he's got two extra seconds, checks the new week's releases at http://www.piccadillyrecords.com on Monday morning - just choose a genre from left and click "magic mix" to stream excerpts from the new releases.

I usually swing by Largehearted Boy's Try it before you buy it posts on Tuesday mornings, too.

It's post-Xmas, which means I have created the warm weather music playlist that will see me through the soul-crumpling winter. The tracks are many and varied, so I won't list them all here. But the other albums I'm listening to are:

Grails - Doomsayer's HolidayThis Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy YouZeke - Kicked In The TeethDax Riggs - We Sing Of Only Blood Or LoveBeneath The Massacre - DystopiaMurder By Death - Red Of Tooth and ClawSteroid Maximus - Ectopia

I've also been accommodating my lady's request to learn about the sundry joys of face-melting metal, so I've been playing a bunch of the good metal from the last 10 or 15 years.

Hey, each to their own. You're obviously made of sterner stuff than me. I have a broad definition of what's romantic. Currently listening to The Nameless by Slipknot which is definitely a love song and shows what big softies they are under those masks.